The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-08-12
THE NEWS OF THE DAY.
The epidemic of smallpox in Cuba
increasing.

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of Gaeta, near Naples.
Consular clerk VIM. P. Tightman, at
Berlin, has been dismissed.
Nearly all the western railroads
show decreased earnings during the
past year.
1t is said the Standard Oil company
contemplates boring for natural gas in
Chicago.
The pope and emperor William have
been exchanging very affectionate au-
tograph letters.
During the first half of 1887, 57,l51
persons emigrated from Germany. as
against 4O,597 during the first half of
The Irish extremists in Paris have
decloed to send message of condol-
ence to the family of the late NJ. Kat
koff.
The president has virtually decided
to make short stops at Columbus and
indianapolis on his way to St. Louis in
October.
Sarah Bernkardt will make another
grand tour in 1888, which will EN-.
brace India, China, Japan Australia
and America.
The body Of an unknown man has
been taken frem the Druid Hill reser-
voir. Baltimore. which had remained
there at least nine days.
The Russian government has ordered
the building of eight Greek Orthodox
churches in the Baltic provinces to as
sist IN Russianizing the people.
At last two of the Culbreath lynch
ers have been brought to trial in
Edgefield, s. G. A jury has been pro-
cured and the examination of the state
witnesses begun.
Frank Mott and Havelock Irvine.
aged 10 and IL years respectively, while
Dst1lng at Woonsocket. n. ". got be-
yond their death, and both were
drowned.
| Gladstone BRICKS" as the bricks
from Hawarden are properly called.
are being laid in the new court house
in Boston, and the Irish bricklayers
handle them with due reverence.
Jacob Miller. collector of the whole
sale grocery firm of Mintzer & Holm
ger. of Lancaster, Penn, has disap-
peared, having embezzled several
thousand dollars of the firms money.
The bill to allow the construction of
a tunnel under the English Channel
which was reintroduced in the house
OF commons by Sir Edward Watkin.
has been rejected by q vote of 1853 to
lO7.
In the parade of the Ohio brigade,
knights of Pythias, at Dayton recently
the mercury registering SO degrees in
the shade. and six officers and twenty
one Knights were Frustrated by the
heat.
George w: Nellis. Jr., has arrived in
San Francisco, having made the
Journey from Chicago on bicycle. He
started on May oath but lost fifteen
days by rough weather. He averaged
fifty milesp per day.
Thomas Cameron of Chicago became
! intoxicated at the Windsor Hotel. in
| Milwaukee. and fell from a fourth
story window through skylight into
the Office of the Evening Wisconsin.
He was fatally injured.
Harris Gunter, who killed policeman
Montgomery, has been convicted at
Prattyllle, Ala. of manslaughter in the
first degree with thirty months impris-
onment named as the punishment.
The case will be appealed.
Frank Spain, young man, son of a
wealthy butcher of Cynthiana, KY,
shot and killed Carrie Van Hook, q
young mulatto. The murderer escaped
to the country. No cause except jeal-
ousy is assigned for the crime.
The Prefect Of Nancy has ordered
the closure of Weisbach's pasteboard
factory at Embermenil. The closure
throws 100 German and French work
men out of employment. The German
government will protest against the
action of the Prefect.
The Maxwell Land Grant COMPANY
has submitted to settlers on that grant
who are nearly all cattle men, a propo-
sitiOn to buy them out. The form of
an agreement between the company
and the settlers is being numerously
signed, and promises to solve the diff
Guilty now existing.
| heavy storm on the mountains has
caused a big rise in the Upper Ten
nessee river. Thousands of logs lying
in the river have escaped. The steam
boat Cytico was caught by q raft at
Sans Bluff. near London, and dashed
against the bank with such force as to
burst the cylinder head and tear away
the snokestack and pilot house.
The dominion government, in addi-
tion to the Manitoba disallowance
question, has trouble to contend With
in British Columbia, several difficulties
having arisen with regard to the own
ership of land, timber and mineral,
which may possibly result in an insur-
rection among the inhabitants. Cen
eral Middleton leaves next week for
British Columbia to inspect the condi-
tion of the militia and Notifications.
Edward Beans. an old man living at
st. John, N. b., is investigating the
merits Of his claim to AN estate worth
$10OOO,OOO. left in Texas by a man
named Thomas Beans, who, he is conf
dent, is his long-unheard-of-bro
Thomas Beans divided lis millions
among the negroes on his estate on
condition that no heirs were found.
| The Beans family belong in Frederic
ton, and Thomas left for Texas fifty
years ago. Edward Beans is now sew
enty-fivs years of age, but has family
who would inherit the property
should it be found to belong to the
family.
Serious charges of horrible cruelty to
children have been made against the
Rev. d. Strohnan, who has been the
official head Of the orphan asylum at
Flat Rock. Ohio, for several years, and
are now being investigated The
charges came from the best people in
that neighborhood, and are to the eff
feet that one boy had his ear pulled
off; another was stripped, tied over q
table and whipped until he was uncon-
scious. and another was terribly
! pounded with heavy stick, and still
another severely pummelled with the
brawny fists of an attendant The in